AMD's newest roadmap reveals a major shift in early 2010: the company will once again overhaul its socket architecture to make way for DDR3 support.

The new socket, dubbed G34, will also ship with two new second-generation 45nm processors. The first of these processors, 8-core Sao Paolo, is described as a "twin native-quadcore Shanghai processor" by one AMD engineer. Shanghai, expected to ship late this year, is AMD's first 45nm shrink of the ill-fated Barcelona processor.

Both of these new processors will feature four HyperTransport 3 interconnects, 12MB of L3 cache and 512KB L2 cache per core.

Intel's next-generation Nehalem chip, scheduled for launch late this year but already well leaked, is the first to feature tri-channel DDR3 memory support. AMD will up the ante in 2010, with registered and unregistered quad-channel DDR3 support. Current roadmaps claim standard support will include speeds from 800 to 1600 MHz.

AMD insiders would reveal very little about the G34 socket, other than its a derivative of the highly secretive G3 socket that was to replace Socket F (1207). As far as company documentation goes, G3 ceased to exist in March 2008, and has been replaced with the G34 program instead. The first of these sockets will be available for developers in early 2009.

We counted 1974 pin connects on the leaked G34 diagram -- 767 more pins than AMD's current LGA1207 socket. Given the additional interconnect pathways for DDR3 and the HyperTransport buses, a significant increase in the number of pins was to be expected.

The addition of a fourth HyperTransport link may prove to be one of the most interesting features of the Sao Paulo and Magny-Cours processors. In a full four-socket configuration, each physical processor will dedicate a HyperTransport link to each of the other sockets. This leaves one additional HyperTransport lane per processor, which AMD documentation claims will finally be used for its long-discussed Torrenza program.

The hype behind Torrenza largely disappeared after AMD's Barcelona launch sour, though the company has hinted before that Torrenza will make a perfect interconnect to GPUs or IBM Cell processors. This is exactly the type of setup roadmapped for the fastest public supercomputer in the world, IBM's Roadrunner.

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Don't worry, I always love how almost all Americans hate the french, yet almost no Americans know that they can thank France for their independence, whom supplied America with weapons, and blockaded the English during the revolutionary war.

Most are also pretty blind to the fact that the French bordered two of the three main axis countries during WW2, and if England or any other allied nation was in the same position as France (i.e not on an island), they probably would have been trampled too. It also did not help that the french had a bunch of giant forts, and the Germans just decided to go around them, but that does not make them cowardly, that just makes the generals of the time very stupid.

Actually we are fully aware how the french helped us. This was back when they were a superpower, a brief period in colonial times where (as someone already pointed out) they had a midget controlling their army.

And we would actually fare MUCH better in an invasion, since 40% of our citizens are legally armed, not to mention the crooks in cities with stolen guns.

In any case, don't take it as a personal insult. It's just that France has been steamrolled since the 1800's is all : )

quote: In any case, don't take it as a personal insult. It's just that France has been steamrolled since the 1800's is all : )

I don't take it as an insult, I am not french, but what does France being steamrolled since WW1 (not the 1800's, but thats only if you consider Napoleon and the biggest European army ever assembled up to that point a superpower) have to do with the fact that almost every American hates France, and most of which have no idea why, other than their funny accents when they speak in english.

quote: I don't take it as an insult, I am not french, but what does France being steamrolled since WW1 (not the 1800's, but thats only if you consider Napoleon and the biggest European army ever assembled up to that point a superpower) have to do with the fact that almost every American hates France, and most of which have no idea why, other than their funny accents when they speak in english.

Most Americans don't hate the French we just, because of their recent and past history see them as what they are, less fighters and more of a high fashion designer.

No, most people in America don't hate the French. Not at all! Go up to people, and ask them if they 'hate' the French; I seriously doubt you'll get anything like 60/40. There's literally no reason to.

In many ways, our cultures are different, but that's in no way spawning hatred on a mass scale.

I think if you were to run into anyone with resentment towards French, the underlying factor of that would seem to be 'they hate us too!' .. That's all.

Bring an average american, and an average french person together, and they'll most likely have the same likelyhood of becoming friends as any other two people. It's just complete idiocy to think we blindly hate each other under any circumstance.

So I must put this out there, because most people who comment are too extreme on everything; most likely from being alone at a computer with your emotions boiling for no rational reason. Either its this, its Vista, its the Xbox, or whatever. Silence, you idle minded people.

I don't know...retardation seems to be spreading like a virus around these parts (USA), with all the O'reily-ites, Hannity Heads, Coulter Creeps, Limbaughneers, etc. Sure, they have some valid opinions, and I'm sure there are at least some equivalents on the "left" as well, but the amount of idiocy I hear the fans of these clowns parroting is a sign of the times in which society has decimated itself exactly as it has in the past so many times, over and over. These parrots love to be a part of this team which has decided to hate France since they stood up to our then soon to be war / international crimes. Also, blind hatred is prevalent in mankind, not the opposite.

In fact, freedom and rationality seem to be more of an exception in our history than a norm, though just one who truly masters it tends to outshine a million who do not.

I'm not trying to buzzkill anyone, but in order to address a problem you have to see it, though plenty will never see it as a problem.

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